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Faith in Democracy: The Political Power of Religion During the Military Dictatorship in Brazil

by Massimo Sciarretta

  • Paperback
  • Publisher: Mimesis
  • 14 x 21 x 2.9 cm

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The current work historically reconstructs the role played by the Brazilian Catholic Church during the military dictatorship that governed the country from 1964 to 1985. If in Latin America the denial of identity and rights has for centuries gone hand in hand with the role played by the Church in Brazil, in the twenty years covered by the book the national Catholic Church managed to establish itself as the only democratic bastion against the army, not only acting to safeguard trampled human rights but also to criticize the situation. Thanks to the influence of liberation theology, the church gave priority to the intellectual progress of the working classes, developing one of the largest operations of non-governmental popular education in the contemporary era, which - to cite Antonio Gramsci - provided an opportunity for the "subaltern classes who want to educate themselves in the art of government".
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Decline of African American TheologyFaith in Democracy: The Political Power of Religion During the Military Dictatorship in Brazil

  • Author

    Massimo Sciarretta

  • Book Format

    Paperback

  • Publisher

    Mimesis

  • Published

    September 2023

  • Weight

    396g

  • Dimensions

    14 x 21 x 2.9 cm

  • ISBN

    9788869773754

  • ISBN-10

    8869773752

  • Eden Code

    5603823

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